And here we have it, folks. The first footage from “Avengers: Infinity War.” Get excited.
Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, ‘Infinity War’ will be the first official Avengers movie not to be helmed by Joss Whedon — a welcome change, if yo…

TORONTO – History tells us there was a long, protracted battle for the electrical current business in the United States beginning in the 1880’s. This was a highly lucrative turf war to determine for how cities would provide electric light to their constituents for generations. This was an invention that changed the world almost as quickly as the automobile, jet airliners, television or the iPhone.
Thomas Edison, arguably the greatest inventor the world has ever seen, struck out with his own direct current (DC) company to in 1882.
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In-between reporting for Marvel duty in “Avengers: Infinity War” where he will be reprising his role as Doctor Strange and a potential future series of the BBC’s “Sherlock”, Benedict Cumberbatch has found time to return to his stock-in trade of playing prickly scientific geniuses and this time, he’s taking on an American icon in what may be an early Oscar contender.
The first trailer has arrived for The Weinstein Company’s biopic “The Current War” in which Cumberbatch plays Thomas Edison, the legendary inventor and erstwhile developer of the phonograph and the motion picture camera.
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Elsewhere, supernatural horror film ‘Wish Upon’ could have trouble scaring up much business, while ‘The Big Sick’ expands nationwide after an impressive limited run at the specialty box office. read more Source: Hollywood Reporter Box Office